Frank

“I don’t hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn’t there to make Englishmen of you, and so it’s Irish you are, by default.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Confusion

“We say of some Nations, the People are lazy, but we should say only, they are poor; Poverty is the Fountain of all Manner of Idleness. —DANIEL DEFOE, A Plan of the English Commerce”
― Neal Stephenson, The Confusion

“At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Confusion

“When later generations come to read about our history they will think they are reading a romance, and not believe a word of it.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Confusion